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Thinking Ahead to San Diego
24th January 2013

If winter is getting you down, start looking forward to the SLA Annual Conference, to take place in San Diego in June. If your budget doesn't quite cover your aspiration to attend and you are in the early stages of your career, learn about SLA Europe's Early Career Conference Awards and consider applying.

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Practice and Content Updates
22nd January 2013

Following feedback from readers, we've made adjustments to some of our regular newsletters. Reorganisation and better visual differentiation help the Information Practice Update and the Information Content Update stand out in your inbox. But for maximum information with minimum inbox clutter and investment of time, the FreePint Newsletter will keep you informed twice a month.

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Spotlight on Consultancies: How Do They Use FreePint?
11th January 2013

Consultancies are important customers for FreePint, because their own business value relies so heavily on information. A brief analysis of how consultancies use FreePint Articles and Reports provides insight into what's on the minds of these information professionals: sources, skill development, cultural change and key issues like mobile.

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Community of Practice: Mobile Deployment in the Enterprise
10th January 2013

FreePint's Director of Research announces the launch of our first Community of Practice, focusing on the challenges and opportunities of mobile deployment of content in the enterprise. Using a blend of learning materials, distance learning principles and peer-to-peer education, this first CoP can be a valuable tool for your 2013 strategic initiatives.

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Busy Wrap-Up, Busy New Year
9th January 2013

The final two reports published in 2012 provide original insight into both buyer needs and market players for news content. New FreePint Articles highlight significant M&A activity, tips on data discovery and unique value of unexpected tools. And coming in January are new formats for product reviews and the opportunity to join a curriculum-based Community of Practice on Mobile Deployment.

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Intranet Report and More New Insight, Just In Time for 2013
8th January 2013

Get an update on the latest reports and articles to support information practice, and welcome to a fresh new year.

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Interesting Times Ahead for Intranet Managers
8th January 2013

Over the last few months FreePint has published a wide array of articles on the subject of intranets. James Mullan identifies the key trends in the editorials, from collaboration to content creation, big data and findability. He highlights some of the articles which discuss implementation and best practice in use of collaborative tools and, finally, he ponders which tool will be the "big thing" for intranets in 2013.

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Power Through Disparate Datasets with Discovery Interfaces
8th January 2013

Jonathan Jacobsen explains the lure of resource discovery interfaces for cultural collections researchers and others. He explores why functions such as faceted browsing and suggestions of related resources, together with the ability to search multiple datasets from one interface, make discovery interfaces one of the hottest trends in web-based search.

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News Needs and Preferences: 2012 Results
24th December 2012

Now in its fifth year, FreePint's Survey on News Needs and Preferences gathers input from corporate information managers about news content within their portfolios and on the desktops (and mobile devices) in their organisations. This year's results demonstrate continued tension between free and fee services, increasing interest in mobile delivery, and attempts to balance carefully cost, content, features, risk and ease of use.

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Winding Up the Year
20th December 2012

Customer-favourite reports are now published, with more to come. New options for purchasing one-off reports are now available. And FreePint invites your feedback while we tackle some newsletter enhancements before 2013 begins.

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